one more time -- broadcom wireless on f7 [SUCCESS!!]

Pierre Lamb plamb_98 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 15 18:40:05 UTC 2007


What kernel are you using???
--- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > >   there is little value in listing the 6
> variations i've tried,
> > > just so someone can say, "here, here's a 7th
> possibility, maybe
> > > *that'll* work."
> >
> > Isn't that exactly what you have to do in a case
> like this?
> > By the time you get to variation 12, it will
> probably work.
> 
>   actually, i stripped the recipe down to its bare
> essentials and,
> amazingly enough, i am now on the net.  the sordid
> details are, of
> course, documented here:
> 
>
http://www.linux-games.ca/wiki/index.php/Rday%27s_installing_Broadcom_4318_wifi
> 
>   in short, i ignored all of the documentation
> regarding
> NetworkManager and modprobe.conf and blacklisting
> and all the rest,
> and just used iwconfig, ifconfig and dhclient to
> finally get
> connected.  sometimes, the simple ways are the best.
> 
> rday
> -- 
>
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> Pedantry
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> 
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